
Crowd into the virtual bar with Chris Anderson and Rick Beyer to plumb intoxicating history topics and kibbitz over juicy tidbits. Each week, Chris and Rick invite a guest author to share cocktails and talk history. Like who? Like Andrew Roberts, Joe Balkoski, Chris Wallace, Lynne Olson, and Hampton Sides, for example. You never know who'll stop by. History Happy Hour, where history is always on t... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 206 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | History | |||

This week on History Happy Hour: President Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if he, himself, did not fully understand the decisions being made until after the atomic bomb was used.
Chr... more
This week on History Happy Hour: Life in Berlin during World War II. What was it like for the four million people who lived there as things became increasingly desperate?
Our guest is author Ian Buruma, author of Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945. We’ll... more
This week on History Happy Hour: This week on History Happy Hour: Follow the money. That’s one way to discover the real story of America and its founding. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America's dominant me... more
This week on History Happy Hour: We celebrate America’s 250th birthday to talk about the founders’ drinking! A perfect take for HHH!
Historian Brook Barbier returns to the show to talk with us live about the role that alcohol played in spurring buil... more
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History’s more than war…and there’s nothing happy about war.
Even if, like me, you think you know a lot about history, you’ll get something new each week n HHH. Chris and Rick interview authors of the latest books on fascinating topics in history. These authors unfailingly reveal stuff I never heard of before! Always a good conversation. You’ll pick up goodies to share at cocktail parties yourself.
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Across recent episodes, the show consistently centers history as a lively, discourse-driven experience hosted by two presenters who invite authors to unpack broad themes through accessible storytelling. Listeners encounter deep dives into World War II campaigns, the shaping of American identity (from the Declaration to nation-building), and frontier-era conflicts, all enriched by anecdotal asides, archival curiosities, and travel-touched context. Guests range from scholarly historians to prolific authors, yielding conversations that blend rigorous analysis with vivid narrative and personal connection to the material. A notable throughline is the emphasis on how monuments, memory, and cultural symbols influence public understanding of histor... more
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Recent guests on History Happy Hour include:
1. Alex Wellerstein
2. Ian Buruma
3. Richard Vague
4. Brooke Barbier
5. Michael Auslin
6. David Nasaw
7. John McManus
8. Tim Brady
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